BITE user comments - crossfield
Comments by crossfield
Old school working countryman's pub.
Beer and cider good.
Thai food perfectly fine.
English food utterly dreadful.
5 Jul 2012 21:52
The Cutty Sark Tavern, Greenwich
As can be nuanced from the foot-high, white on black writing on the front of the pub that reads 'FREE HOUSE', the Cutty Sark is a free house.
Like I said, people critical of this pub must be either competitors or... WIERDOS.
27 Jul 2009 17:03
I love this pub. Extremely nice staff. They usually have a good selection of ciders and perries, which changes often. Be aware that perry taken in excess can and will lead to "explosive decompression", apparently caused by some chemical present in pears, and extremely awkward when staggering around "theatreland"! Occasionally infiltrated by football yobs on Saturdays.
15 Jul 2009 13:14
The Jerusalem Tavern, Clerkenwell
Some years ago I enjoyed a possibly imprudent number of bottles of the cream stout, and was punished by a hangover WAY in excess of my crime. A bad batch? I still go here occasionally, as I like this pub, I like the decor (no matter how fake), and they serve Aspall's, which is an excellent drink. It can get crowded with City knobs though, as noted already.
15 Jul 2009 12:24
I usually like Sam Smith's pubs, but this one I don't. It get's crowded with people I don't like the look nor sound of, the decor is oppressive, and it smells funny. It also has a grubbiness to it that is hard to define, but I suppose that, like the smell, this can be put down to the high volume of human traffic it sees. The staff are quite good though.
15 Jul 2009 12:06
Sam Smith's means pretty alright beer at a good price. The interior of this pub is a sight to behold, but the atmosphere is distinctly lacking.
15 Jul 2009 11:59
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street
In days of yore when you went in, and the fire was on and most people had a fag or even a pipe on the go, nothing could be more exhileratingly conducive to ill-health than the dimly lit front bar of the Cheese! Those days are sadly past, but Samuel Smith's can't be beat on price, and this is still a pretty cool old pub. It is my opinion that it is better enjoyed during the day, when creaky quietude rules, rather than in the evenings, when both bankers and barrow boys (and tourists) do their bit to taint the atmosphere. Having said I have had some very memorable evenings in here, and the front room is so cramped that it is almost impossible not to strike up conversation with some random strangers, which is a rarity these days.
15 Jul 2009 11:45
The Cutty Sark Tavern, Greenwich
The bad reviews below must have been left either by competitors or wierdos. This pub has excellent beer, an excellent location, a nice outside area, a freindly clientelle, and competent staff who seem prety happy to work there. My only criticism is that the beer is a bit expensive. I have not eaten the food, but it looks like pub food. If you want good food, go to a restaurant, but not one in Greenwich, because they're all crap, but the Cutty Sark is a pub, so let's judge it on its beer.
13 Jul 2009 19:01
I went in here once, was served once. It did not seem that the landlord was too interested in serving me a second pint, and I have not been back.
13 Jul 2009 17:37
This is a very nice pub. It's a shame that it's often quite quiet. It's in a shabby area, but the landlord and lady are extremely welcoming, and the locals aren't scary. Please go there.
13 Jul 2009 17:30
Bad Beer, bad atmosphere, dirty toilets, dingy, expensive, full of w@nkers. But what really sets the Anchor apart are the morons wo "work" behind the bar. Incompetence verging on the malicious.
13 Jul 2009 17:21
The Rake is a bit like buying beer at an insanely expensive cash-and-carry jammed tight with public school boys. Why would you?
13 Jul 2009 15:42
We visited this pub on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It is pretty on the outside, and pretty on the inside. Being nice out, we went through to the deck out back. While this pub is right on the Thames, the deck (for want of a better word) has been ingeniously constructed to obscure all views of the river when one is seated. Actually, it looks like a wooden fort, or perhaps a tree-house. Perfect for Wild-West enthusiasts and juveniles.
I don't usually patronise pubs whose bar staff are from far away lands where they know nothing about beer, not because I'm a xenophobe, but because the beer is often rubbish. My wife, however, being an American combines an ignorance of beer with a love of things tenuously linked to her homeland, so I agreed to go in for a pint.
As it turned out, I had a perfectly adequate pint of ale. The very imperfect price was �3.50, which must be the most I've paid for beer in a pub. Being stupid, I then ordered a bowl of Japanese rice cracker snacks (or whatever you call them) at �1.70. They say bowl, I say egg-cup.
This pub was strangely underpopulated, given the day, the weather and its position along the Thames path. The people who were there were mostly tourists, with a peppering of one-time-only blow-ins like us. The atmosphere was largely non-existant. My wife thought it was creepy.
To conclude, this pub appears to be a rip-off tourist-trap with okay beer. To get the most out of this pub, take a look at the inside and outside of the pretty building, and then go somewhere else for your pint.
13 Jul 2009 15:28
The Deptford Arms, Deptford
RIP This was a good pub, very mixed crowd.
5 Jul 2012 21:55